Should a bijection be defined as two-way injection or a surjection and injection?

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The definitions of a surjection and injection make intuitive sense to me from the etymology of sur and in. Likewise for a bijection when defined as a two-way injection between two sets where the bi comes from Latin for two.

However, the Wikipedia article defines a bijection as:

(That is, the function is both injective and surjective.)

Yes, this is an equivalent definition for a bijection, but was this the intention of the original definition, and is this how it's first presented to students?